A former City Council candidate convicted of campaign fraud has an unusually cushy arrangement for her weekends-only sentence on Rikers Island, the Daily News has learned.
Celia Dosamontes, 33, gets personally chauffeured by a Correction Department captain and officer in a black van each Friday from the Queens-side entry through a high-security directly to the Rose M. Singer Center, according to an internal directive obtained by The News.
Dosamontes, a member of a family influential in Queens politics, is allowed to bring her baby daughter with her — along with a toddler seat, a breast pump, baby medications, clothing and baby bottles, the directive states.
Rather than a cell, mom and baby stay in the Singer Center nursery usually reserved for pregnant women. They receive visitors in the nursery, rather than the regular visit room.
When she leaves on Sundays, she receives the same personal escort back to the Queens exit.
The special arrangement started Friday and goes through Oct. 1. Commissioner Louis Molina personally approved the arrangement and it is being overseen by the Singer Center Warden, Danielle Davis, according to sources and records.
“The department followed all appropriate nursery protocols for the health, safety, and medical needs of the child of the incarcerated individual,” a Correction Department spokesperson said in a statement. “No outside parties influenced any decision.”
On Friday, Dosamontes arrived with two duffel bags to begin her sentence and the intake clinic was closed just to process her, an irate correction source said.
Dosamontes’ mother, Sumita Sengupta is influential in Queens political circles and community organizations, records show. Her late grandmother was a longtime Queens Democratic district leader.
The Senguptas are staunch campaign contributors who rub elbows regularly with elected officials from Queens and elsewhere including members of congress and mayors, records show. In 2021, Sumita Sengupta appeared with Rep….
Read the full article here
Leave a Reply